Lost sands clarification needed 2 electric bugaloo

@deckhands anybody know how this adventure actually works? @Musicmee? Does turning relics into merrick help golden sands? I put in a support ticket but they say they are having longer than expected wait times and I searched the client searched all of Rare's social media. I don't have an answer.

@musicmee I'm interested in helping flameheart so the inverse is true? Handing in sailcloth and rum to the servant helps reapers? I can just do merricks quest and turn in the rum and sailcloth to reapers to help them? TYVM for the quick response you are a pillar of the community.

@musicmee https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/756393888444579922/981527707219263488/unknown.png

So relics count but rum and sailcloth dont?

@lackbarwastaken From what I understand, we can just basically ruin each others efforts. You just prevent one faction to gather points I guess with their designated deeds..

I've also seen that we can earn points by destroying Soulflame rowboats but I guess it's also just a lie or a tricky way to explain how the event works so the fate of Golden Sands may or may not be really determined by our actions but the vision of the devs ?

The event is rigged anyway tbh : in one side you have a new rowboats, hidden NPC's, kind of fun to do a kamikaze mission without your ship and in the sense that we'll maybe see something new if Reaper's win (which I bet they will).
On the other side you have a fedex mission as almost every very first quests we've been having since the launch "go there, dig this, bring it and sail long distances compared to Reaper's even if on rowboats". Plus, the goods you have to bring can we easily griefed if not stolen and Reaper's can camp the outpost and use cannons. I don't think you can destroy relics that Reaper's carry (by shooting at them or something like bottles of rum).

I don't blame any faction, I just point the fact the devs clearly wants to give Reaper's a better chance to win the game (or to make the other faction so depressed that they won't play for the duration of the event so it could be basically a win by "semi forfeit")

PS: As you can see I'm in the Golden Sands team, but actually, it's really just because it makes me sick to quest in the Shore of Plenty and it's been like that for months, that's just not fun to have a big useless island in the middle of a region, I hope that even if Reapers win, we'll have again a place to sell stuff without sailing for ages.